The Common Origins of Philosophical and Political Power in Plato's Gorgias

Plato’s Gorgias concerns the tension between political and philosophical power. In it, Socrates and Gorgias discuss rhetoric’s power, which Gorgias claims is universal, containing all powers, enabling the rhetorician to rule over others politically. Polus and Callicles develop Gorgias’s understandi...

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Main Author: Lydia Winn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2021-01-01
Series:Plato
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8755